Word: vigor
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...cultivation of these qualities makes a man capable of giving a judgment that is entitled to weight, it brings out the best qualities of his individuality, it teaches him to avoid bluster and gives him the gentleness that springs, not from feebleness, but from vigor, and it inspires him to do what he ought under all conditions. If the new men were to escape the selfishness into which college men so easily fall, they would best do it by co-operating with the old men in work for these old ideals...
...editorials are disappointing. They have not the strength and vigor which ought to characterize undergraduate work here at Harvard. The writers make a mistake, too, in speaking of a class matter in a class spirit; no paper which represents the college at large has a right to show itself prejudiced in favor of one class, as the Advocate does when it says "As a Junior board of editors," etc., "we backed Ninety-four, and we feel as badly about their defeat as they...
...work was simply lifeless. They lost a chance to score in the first with two men on bases and no one out, and, from that time on, they went to sleep. Toward the close of the game, they realized that something was needed, but seemed unable to throw any vigor into their play. However, probably no one, more than the nine, recognize their poor showing and every effort can be expected from them to better matters...
...turn a probable victory into defeat. Let a nine or eleven realize that in the mass of on lookers, there are some who are in sympathy with them and ready to encourage by their cheers every worthy effort, then they will play with an increased vigor that is often enough to win the victory. It is not so much the knowledge than ten or twenty or thirty college friends are watching the game, that encourages the men; it is rather the realization that the class or university has interest enough in the success of the team to send a delegation...
...mourning him. The sad news of yesterday but adds fresh cause for grief. We who are now in college can hardly appreciate what Dr. Peabody has been to Harvard. We can form little idea of the vast influence for good which he exerted for the college while in the vigor of his life. It is rather for those who have gone before us to have had the privilege of his personal acquaintance in the class room and chapel. Yet occasionally he has preached to us, and we have then felt the strength of his personality and shared his kind...